Evan

I think it changes the complexion of the offseason.

It complicates it, but it changes it.

Yes.

Where else can Polanco play?

Well, Polanco could play all the way in the infield, but right now the Mets are very set in the infield because Marcus Simeon's your second baseman.

Lindor is your shortstop.

The openings right now are first base, third base, DH clearly, and left field.

So could any of those guys play left field?

Who's going to play first base?

There's a lot of weird defensive options.

And look, the pushback you put on me when I brought this up an hour ago was, hey, you guys talked so much about run prevention, and now you're going to have all these guys out of position.

That was certainly Sean's argument back at me.

And my point was, first of all, I think these guys are athletic.

Of course.

I mean, they don't grow up as shortstops, and they played everywhere.

Right.

And did everything.

So you couldn't do it.

become professional at as being an infielder yeah but also they needed to upgrade this offense like they lost a lot of production and quite frankly they still have lost a lot of production with losing pete alonzo i don't want to make it out like oh everything's fine but they they close the gap right in terms of replacing what they lost with a player in bichette who's very different than pete alonzo he hits for a much higher batting average yep 311 last year does not hit for as much power

strikes out a little bit less.